11 January 2015 Potiskum bombing

The 11 January 2015 Potiskum bombing was a terrorist attack carried out by Boko Haram against a mobile handset market that killed 3 people and wounded 26.

History
Two young girls of about 10 years of age, working for Boko Haram, were sent to the town of Potiskum in the northern Yobe State of Nigeria on a suicide mission. At mid-afternoon, they detonated their explosives at an open market selling mobile handsets (an old type of telephone), killing 3 people and wounding 26.